FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Climatography: Essays on Weather, Culture, and the Meteorological Imagination. For a volume of critical essays addressing those cultural spaces bordering on the meteorological, we seek proposals that explore the role of weather in culture, literature, and the arts. Weather, we assume, underpins the basic material and emotional forces that form the basis of how we live. Every region has its own weather--from the cold and blustery to the temperate and serene--as well as ways to represent it. Our daily conversations are so often about the weather, yet discussions of these meteorological influences have received surprisingly little attention from scholars interested in the overlap of nature, culture, and environments. Our volume aims to broaden conventional considerations of the weather by drawing on the insights of writers in such diverse fields as literature, geography, meteorology, history, environmental studies, and the fine arts. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary approaches, especially those which challenge the boundaries between modes of inquiry. Possible topics might include (but need not be limited to): Weather in literature Art and meteorology Gendered weather Climatological history The culture and history of meteorological science Seasons and seasonal change Weather myths and lore Technology and weather information Please send proposals or completed papers (20-25 pages) by April 1, 2001 to: Todd Robert Petersen English Department 205 Morrill Hall Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma 74708 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Adam Sweeting Boston University College of General Studies 871 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
